Mozart and Haydn + Bach Downtown
Three great composers will be finding their place downtown in what is going to be one of the best concert events to be put on this year in Toronto.
Mozart
Mozart has a number of distinctions as a composer, not least of which is his ability to be consistently prolific throughout his whole life. He actually put out over 600 different compositional works throughout his lifetime and many of them are still considered classics today, showing how influential he was in his classical compositional skin.
At one point in the year 1783, Mozart and his wife had stopped over in the town of Linz in the country of Austria on their way back home to Vienna. When the local court heard that the great Mozart had stopped over in their town, representatives were sent to fetch Mozart and request that he write a symphony for a concert that they would be holding in honour of his arrival. Mozart quite graciously agreed to compose the symphony and a mere four days later the Linz Symphony was born. Known formally as Mozart’s 36th Symphony, this piece of work will be played as the Mozart part of the concert.
Haydn
Haydn is another very influential composer in the same tradition as Mozart, although it can be argued by some that Haydn is more influential amongst actual musicians and composers whereas Mozart is better known amongst lay people. Two of Haydn’s nicknames are “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet” and just like his fellow composer Mozart, Haydn spent all of his life residing in the country of Austria. He also came from a very musically inclined family, with one brother that was a well known composer and another that was a well known tenor singer.
The work that will be performed at the concert from Haydn is the Symphony 82 work, also sometimes referred to as the “Bear Symphony”. The Bear Symphony is the first of Haydn’s Paris Symphonies, a series of six symphonies that were commissioned as works by the Concerts de la Loge Olympique in the city of Paris.
Bach
Bach was a baroque composer from Germany that did most of his work a few decades before either Mozart or Haydn had started on their compositional endeavours. Bach is commonly thought of as being the composer that provided structure to the overall baroque period in composition and eventually brought that period to its ultimate conclusion.
Bach’s piece is the twist to this concert as the selection from his works that will be played is his Cello Suite #1 in G Major which actually represents a Canadian premiere of that particular work.
Event: Mozart and Haydn + Bach Downtown
Date: February 17, 2008
Time: 3:30 PM
Cost: $29-$68 for adults depending on seating location, $23-$61 for children
Location: Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (MAP)
Closest Subway Station: Spadina Station
More Information: Phone (416-964-6337), E-Mail (info@tafelmusik.org) and Internet (http://www.tafelmusik.org)
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